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    Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
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    Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

    By Jeff Speck

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    "Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.”
    —David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker

    Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. WalkableCity Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now.

    The 101 rules are practical yet engaging—worded for arguments at the planning commission, illustrated for clarity, and packed with specifications as well as data. For ease of use, the rules are grouped into 19 chapters that cover everything from selling walkability, to getting the parking right, escaping automobilism, making comfortable spaces and interesting places, and doing it now!

    Walkable City was written to inspire;Walkable City Rules was written to enable.Itis the most comprehensive tool available for bringing the latest and most effective city-planning practices to bear in your community. The content and presentation make it a force multiplier for place-makers and change-makers everywhere.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsland Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2018
    ISBN9781610918992
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    Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
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    Jeff Speck

    Jeff Speck, coauthor of the landmark bestseller Suburban Nation, is a city planner who advocates for smart growth and sustainable design. As the former director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, where he worked with dozens of American mayors on their most pressing city planning challenges. He leads a design practice based in Washington, D.C.

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    • 4/5
      This is a hard one, because I enjoyed it, I agree with everything he said, but having just read his Walkable City, I found this book too similar to get too excited about. It's differentiation is apparently this would be a list of rules for implementing the findings in Walkable City, but I'm not a moron, so if I've learned that "large lanes are bad," it's not so hard to think up the rule "make smaller lanes," say.

      If one hasn't read the earlier book, this is 5 star, brilliant, read it now stuff. If you've read the earlier book, this is 3 star, decent, but not worth going out of your way for it stuff. So I'm averaging to 4.

      (Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).